Food security has been invoked for a variety of trade policy interventions and in many trade negotiations This chapter focuses on three trade topics for which food security concerns have been mentioned as the rationale (or at least part of it) for
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Revisiting land policy reforms in developing countries with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
The impact of land tenure systems in developing countries on agricultural investment and productivity continues to be the subject of intense scrutiny.
Este trabajo busca producir información actualizada y analizar el funcionamiento del mercado financiero agropecuario de Urugu
Amid concerns about the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Guatemala, in January 2020 decreed travel bans from China, which were later expanded to other countries.
Una aproximación al diseño de instrumentos financieros para proyectos del sistema alimentario
Este artículo recoge una serie de recomendaciones y experiencias desde la banca multilateral, en particular de la Corporación Interamericana de Inversiones en el período 2005-2013 para la financiación de proyectos regionales y de la Banca de Desar
This article collects a series of recommendations and experiences from multilateral banks, in particular from the Inter-American Investment Corporation in the period 2005-2013 for the financing of regional projects and the Development Bank in Mexi
The country is facing a damaging combination of political, economic, social, and health crises, playing out amidst extreme uncertainty. The current situation is to a large extent the continuation of a very complex political and social history.
Due to the global pandemic generated by the COVID-19 the government of Honduras declared “state of emergency” in Feburay (“Estado de Emergencia en el Territorio Nacional a través del Decreto Ejecutivo Número PCM- 005-2020, 10 de febrero 2020).
As most countries in the world Guatemala has been affected by COVID-19. In January 2020 the country decreed travel bans from China, which were later expanded to other countries.
Regional developments
As the coronavirus pandemic reached every corner of the world, countries responded rapidly with an array of policies to stop it, and then with social and economic policies to protect food security, incomes, and livelihoods.
Agricultural transition in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe: Ten lessons for Venezuela
Thirty years have elapsed since the fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The collapse of political structures took with it regimes of highly administered management of agri-food systems.
Venezuela está sufriendo una crisis política, económica y social sin precedentes. La economía ha estado cayendo por 7 años consecutivos, y con los estimados de -35% en 2019 y -25% en 2020 sería solamente una cuarta parte del valor de 2013.
Este es un documento de apoyo a la Consulta Regional en “Innovaciones en políticas económicas y sociales para hacer frente a el sobrepeso y la obesidad en América Latina y el Caribe,” organizada por la FAO con apoyo del IFPRI.
Agriculture and food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC) are rightfully recognized as among the most successful on the planet: they have fed a fast-growing population, facilitated economic development, enabled urbanization, gen
Analisis de la institucionalidad agropecuaria en Chile: Una experiencia a considerar para Venezuela
Este documento se enfoca en la experiencia sobre leyes, políticas, regulaciones e instituciones en Chile, y las posibles lecciones para Venezuela.
Reflexiones sobre las políticas alimentarionutricionales de la Argentina, antes y durante la pandemia del COVID-19
El nuevo Gobierno de la Argentina lanzó a principios del año 2020 el Plan Argentina contra el Hambre (PACH) (Res.
A nivel mundial, América Latina es la región en desarrollo que presenta la más alta prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad (SOFI 2019).
Regional developments
Building inclusive food systems to help reach the goal of ending hunger and malnutrition globally will require innovation and investment at the regional and country levels.
The percentage of population suffering from overweight or obesity is increasing worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, and for all subpopulations of age and gender (although data on the incidence of those problems seem to differ so